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Lund Fantastic Film Festival Goes Hybrid for 2020, Announces Poster and First Two Features

Lund Fantastic Film Festival — a Swedish fest presenting amazing horror, science fiction, and fantasy movies from around the globe — has scheduled a hybrid version for this year. Most screenings will be online through Spamflix with a select few in-person screenings during the fest’s October 28–November 1 run. Lund Fantastic has also debuted its poster for this year and announced its first two films. I have already seen Woman of the Photographs, and can recommend it as a hypnotic character study and psychological thriller with body horror elements and superb sound design. German chiller Sleep promises to be a gripping psychological outing, as well. The following information is from Lund Fantastic’s press releases and official announcements. For more information, visit https://www.fff.se/. At age 26, Lund Fantastic shows no signs of slowing down and is proud to go through with its 2020 edition (October 28–November 1), even if the current state of the world brings changes to the usual format.

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Joseph Perry

Sep 14, 2020

Film Festivals

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Presents an Independent Film Fest of Horror and Genre Films on Zoom

The first-ever online film festival to be presented entirely through the Zoom app is mere days away, and it is chock-full of mouth-watering fright flicks and other genre movies! Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension will present more than 100 feature-length and short films when it runs from September 24th through the 29th. Genre film aficionados will find a gold mine of independent filmmaking efforts ready for discovery. Following is the festival’s official press release. For more information, visit https://www.ahith.com/. Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension is the first online film festival to be presented entirely through the Zoom app. Taking place from September 24th through the 29th, 2020, it will showcase Independent films from the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Dark & Off-the-Wall Comedy, Animation, and Art/Experimental–as well as Music Videos and Documentaries with related content. 13 Features and 97 Short Films will be streamed over the six days of the fest. Conceived at a time when conventional online festival

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Joseph Perry

Sep 13, 2020

MoviesReviews

Movie Review: Rent-A-Pal

A lonely bachelor resigned to being the full-time caretaker for his ailing mother becomes increasingly obsessed by a videotape in writer/director Jon Stevenson’s Rent-A-Pal, an unsettling character study that builds into a full-on thriller in its third act. Wonderfully acted and gripping throughout, Stevenson’s directorial debut is a chilling watch. Set in 1990, Rent-A-Pal stars Brian Landis Folkins as David, a 40-year-old man who lives with his elderly, verbally abusive mother Lucille (Kathleen Brady), who suffers from dementia. With no real outside contact, he seeks a romantic relationship through a video dating service that has questionable practices. One day at the service’s offices, he impulse purchases a videotape called “Rent-A-Pal,” and begins to connect with the character named Andy (Wil Wheaton in a creepy performance), who asks for personal information, suggests drinks and card games, and slowly becomes a heavily influential part of David’s lonely life. Enter Lisa (Amy Rutledge), a fellow caregiver who matches through the dating service with

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Joseph Perry

Sep 11, 2020

News

“Friday the 13th” Fan Film “Never Hike in the Snow” Announces Trailer and Final Call for IndieGoGo Campaign

Womp Stomp Films has released a trailer for its next Friday the 13th fan film project, Never Hike in the Snow. The film is set for release on YouTube on October 13th, but the IndieGoGo crowdfunding project for the film also offers supporters an opportunity to get their name in the credits and to preorder a first edition Never Hike in the Snow Blu-Ray, set for release on December 1st. Following is the official press release. The team at Womp Stomp Films is excited to release the official trailer for Never Hike in the Snow, the prequel to 2017’s mega hit Friday the 13th fan film, Never Hike Alone. Never Hike in the Snow is a prequel set three months prior to the events of Never Hike Alone. The film follows the events surrounding the strange disappearance of Mark Hill (Courtlan Gordon), a young resident of Crystal Lake who went for a hike in the dead of winter and never

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Joseph Perry

Sep 10, 2020

Film FestivalsNews

Twisted Dreams Announces Its 2020 Virtual Version

Milwaukee’s Twisted Dreams Film Festival has announced that it will, for the first time ever, present a completely virtual version this year. The fest, which proudly proclaims that it features “the most Twisted Independent Films from around the world,”runs from October 1–4. Following is the festival’s official press release: Twisted Dreams 2020 will be completely virtual for the first time. The festival will kick off Thursday, October 1st at 7pm with a 2-hour block including twisted Wisconsin shorts, spook show shorts, h0us3 Q&A, reality, animation, thrills, and comedy shorts. All purchases will be available to watch until the end of the festival October 4th at 9pm. Feature events for Twisted dreams will include Q&As with filmmakers including director Michael Fausti on Saturday Oct 3rd at 2pm. For the main event, we will be hosting legendary Troma director Lloyd Kaufmann. There will be a premiere of the new Troma film Slashening 2: The Final Beginning, followed by a live Q&A With

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Joseph Perry

Sep 9, 2020

Film FestivalsForeignMoviesParanormal

Movie Review (Arrow Video FrightFest): They’re Outside

Folk horror meets found footage in They’re Outside, a solid U.K. fear-fare effort from codirectors Sam Casserly and Airell Anthony Hayles. Max Spencer (Tom Wheatley) plays psychologist on his YouTube channel, despite his qualifications being questionable. He sets a 10-day goal to cure agoraphobic Sarah Sanders (Chrissy Randall) and get her to go outside of her home for the first time in a few years. Sarah’s fear of the outdoors stems from the death of her daughter, who she believes was taken by Green Eyes, a local, woods-dwelling supernatural legend said to haunt people by degrees before leading them to their demise. Max is a hardcore skeptic who refuses to listen to anything having to do with Green Eyes, despite his cameraperson/girlfriend Nicole (Nicole Miners) and Sarah’s friend Penny Arnold (genre veteran Emily Booth of Event Horizon and Grindhouse in a delightful supporting role) pleading with him to at least consider Sarah’s viewpoint. Sarah isn’t as easy a case to

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Joseph Perry

Sep 2, 2020

Film Festivals

Screamfest Horror Film Festival Announces 2020 Dates

Screamfest Horror Film Festival is always a blast, and we at Horror Fuel are excited to see what the fest has planned for this year. Following is the fest’s first official announcement about the scheduled dates for 2020. WHAT: The 20th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival will take place October 6-15, 2020. Screamfest is the largest and longest running horror film festival in the United States. Considered the “Sundance of Horror,” the festival premieres and showcases new work from American and international independent horror filmmakers. A launchpad for careers, many of the festival’s filmmakers have garnered distribution and representation, including Paranormal Activity, which was discovered and premiered at the festival in 2007. Film entries are accepted in the categories of Best Feature, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Special Effects and Musical Score. In addition, there are special categories for Best Animation, Best Short, Best Documentary, and Best Student Film, as well as a Screenplay competition. The festival lineup will be announced in

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Joseph Perry

Aug 27, 2020

Film Festivals

Stockholm’s Monsters of Film Festival Serves Up Everything from Grindhouse to Gore

Stockholm’s Monsters of Film Festival, scheduled for September 14-20, has announced its fear-filled lineup, which includes opening film Psycho Goreman and closing film Uncle Peckerhead. Festival representative Jasmine says, “Blood is life! And this year we have loads of it. We need some fun in these dark times and what is better than some cathartic horror films? We will screen films in a secure environment at our regular cinemas. Welcome to this year’s greatest and bloodiest film festival. We’ll see you there!” The following information is from the festival’s official announcement. The gates to Monsters of Film festival in Stockholm will open in less than a month from now. We have now released the programme and tickets. PSYCHO GOREMAN is 2020’s opening film. Steven Kostanski’s latest splatter film will open this year’s festival on the 16th of September and will be screened at Bio Rio. Do you love TURBO KID, STRANGER THINGS, and GHOSTBUSTERS as much as we do but

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Joseph Perry

Aug 27, 2020

MoviesReviews

Movie Review: The Pale Door

The Pale Door is an independent, low-budget effort that strives to pull off a western/horror movie mashup successfully. Although its budgetary limitations often show seams and its western film tropes are plentiful, the film from director Aaron B. Koontz (Camera Obscura and a segment in Scare Package) is an ultimately fun effort boasting impressive practical makeup effects and an intriguing cast. In the old west, Duncan and his younger brother Jake witness their parents murdered during a raid on their ranch. Duncan (Zachary Knighton) grows up to be a member of the Dalton Gang, and Jake (Devin Druid) leads an honest life sweeping saloon floors in an attempt to save up enough money to buy back the land on which they lived as children. When the two brothers meet up as the gang members travel through town on their way to a train robbery, Jake, against Duncan’s initial wishes, asks to help out after one of the outlaws is shot

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Joseph Perry

Aug 24, 2020

MoviesTrailers

Trailer for Supernatural Horror Chiller “The Lockdown Hauntings” Debuts, with Tony Todd

Director Howard J Ford unleashes his latest horror offering The Lockdown Hauntings, and Horror Fuel is thrilled to share the first trailer for the film with you! Tony Todd and Angela Dixon star in this supernatural horror thriller, which was set and shot during the COVID-19 lockdown. Following is the official press release for the trailer announcement. Howard J Ford’s latest feature film is THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, a supernatural serial killer movie. The award-winning director behind The Dead, The Dead 2 India, and Never Let Go, revealed that plans are underway to release the film, which was shot entirely in lockdown without a crew, exactly one year after the U.K. lockdown was called (March 16), which is the very same day the film’s story starts. Synopsis: With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The

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Joseph Perry

Aug 17, 2020

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